Word: branch
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...university at once. The Department of Fencing was instituted just a year ago and he was invited to take charge by Professor Anderson, director of the new gymnasium. Fencing has not proved popular at Yale and lack of interest is the cause of the abandonment of classes in that branch of athletics. Professor Jacobi will probably return to France where the science he teaches is more popular...
When the candidates for the freshman baseball team are called out after the mid-years, the class enters into another branch of athletics which culminates in the two games with the Yale freshman nine. To win these games will require the most faithful work on the part of the nine and strenuous exertions on the part of coach and captain. In view of this the class as a whole should feel that their reputation is at stake and make every effort to turn out a winning team. If the number of candidates should be small owing to lack of interest...
...Princeton's attitude in regard to the track games, and in fact to any branch of athletics in which she claims that men in the college department alone are eligible, may aptly be compared to the position of a dwarf who considers that he is doing a favor to a giant by entering into a contest with him, with the big man's hands tied behind his back...
...faculty committee of the University of Pennsylvania has decided that no student can take part in more than one branch of athletics, except under special circumstances as to class standing...
...fewer objections can be raised to the relative amount of time which is given to athletics and studies. On this point we are forced to disagree with Mr. Caspar Whitney who, in a recent number of Harper's Weekly, showed himself opposed to indoor training in at least one branch of sport-baseball. If the only object of our athletics were to turn out the most skilful teams possible, and if their indoor work took any considerable part of a man's time from his studies, objection might well be made. But as a matter of fact this preliminary training...